Review: NEO Find Email Organizer for Outlook

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If you’re like most people at work you probably have a ton of email in your Inbox. Of course, then under your Inbox you probably have a bunch of other folders you use to “organize” your email. In the end, you really can’t find an email when you need it.

Instead of using folders to organize your email you need a better way to search for it. That’s where NEO Find comes in. Using NEO Find you can easily find emails by correspondent or by keyword. You can even search in specific Outlook folders.

Launching NEO Find

By default, NEO Find is launched whenever you launch Outlook. Now I must admit my personal preference was to turn this off until I needed it since it took a little extra time for Outlook to finally open since there were two applications running at the same time. I can see where others might want to keep NEO Find available to quickly search through email.

Where the heck is that email?

One thing I love about NEO Find is that by default the program will sort your emails by correspondent. Emails are then classified further by new emails and older emails. So, if you want to find that email from John Smith you simply click on his name and there is all the emails you’ve sent or received from him. You can dig deeper into John Smith’s folder by searching by keywords or manually browsing using the available preview pane built into the application.

You don’t need to launch Outlook to launch NEO Find

Probably the nicest thing about NEO Find is that I didn’t have to launch Outlook to launch NEO Find. I am always able to launch NEO Find and browse emails to my heart’s content. Now if I need to jump to Outlook to access a folder I can do that by simply right clicking the mouse and clicking on “Jump to Outlook” which makes it really easy to access Outlook when you have found the email you are looking for.

Where are the snapshots of you using the application?

Some of you may notice I didn’t use any personal snapshots of the application while I was reviewing it. That was by design. NEO Find is so good at displaying and organizing your email it makes it really hard to show you the application without jeopardizing my personal information or the personal information of those that have sent me an email. Sorry, spammers. I’m not going to make it that easy for you.

Summary

{ad}NEO Find comes in two versions including a standard version which retails for US$15 and a NEO Pro version which retails for US$49.95. A comparison between NEO Find and NEO Pro is available on the NEO website. If you get a lot of emails it’s clear you might need an add-on to Outlook to save you some time looking for those emails you need the most.

Speak Your Mind

Michael

I´m sorry to say that, but i´m using Neo for a longer time now and i´m not very happy with it… For example: If you search attachments-files like .pfd or .ppt Neo often does NOT find what i´m searching. I´m actually trying a new tool called lokkeen, a Friend approved that to me and in my opinion that tool is better. -Michael-

EmailMaven

How is this an unbiased review? It’s more an advertisement. An unbiased review would have pointed out FREE alternatives to NEO that are equal or better: X1 desktop search, Google desktop, Copernic desktop

LazyJohn

I have been using NEO Find now for couple of weeks and it’s the best I have ever used to find my emails back. Other search tools (especially desktop tools) do not even come close in easiness and speed. Just entering the name of the correspondent gives me immediately all sent and received mails as if they were in an actual folder. Searching through this folder is incredibly fast. For only $15 it’s just a give-away. It’s addictive – I couldn’t work without it anymore.

PaulEmailAddict

After a few weeks using NEO Find, I cannot live without it anymore. Nothing compares to the ease and power of NEO Find to get to my emails: just enter name of person and all his/her emails are there. Lightining fast and much easier than any other search/desktop tool. For $15 just a give-away.

bigdan

Ok, your opinion but i think you both never tried lookeen. It is not a Desktop tool, or an external tool like Neo, it´s an add-in, starts with Outlook and has very much and, more important, useful search options.
I´d always take lookeen.